How to set global overflow property to visible？

[fadeli1]

birt version: 4.9.0

Problem description:
I have a table with 10 columns, one of which is the cell content, because the column width causes the text to be truncated, not full, only half of the text is displayed, this happens when exporting the word document

Solution:
The test found that by setting the control property overflow to visible, the text was displayed correctly, and the property defaulted to inheritance

I want to set the global overflow property to default to visible, how can I do this?

[fadeli1]

Later, by modifying the source code, I changed
org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.wpml.writer.AbstractWordXmlWriter

if (isField) {
	writeAutoText(type);
} else {
	// get text attribute overflow hidden
	// and run the function to emulate if true
	if (CSSConstants.CSS_OVERFLOW_HIDDEN_VALUE.equals(style.getOverflow())) {
		txt = cropOverflowString(txt, style, fontFamily, paragraphWidth);
	}
	writeString(txt, style);
}

to

if (isField) {
	writeAutoText(type);
} else {
	writeString(txt, style);
}

Export the doc document, the content is displayed normally, not truncated

Is there a way for me to change the default value of the overflow property to be visible, currently its default value is inherited, the default is hidden

[hvbtup]

I think this only happens with long words (which are common in e.g. German text).
You can make it work with a somewhat dirty trick using styles.

Create a predefined style for "label" and set e.g. the whitespace property.
Modify the XML, find the <styles> element

and replace

<property name="whitespace">nowrap</property>

with

<property name="overflow">visible</property>

inside the element <style name="label" ...>.

Duplicate this style twice and choose "text-data" and "text" for the other styles.

Finally, it should look like this:

<styles>
    <style name="label" id="28">
        <property name="overflow">visible</property>
    </style>
    <style name="text" id="29">
        <property name="overflow">visible</property>
    </style>
    <style name="text-data" id="30">
        <property name="overflow">visible</property>
    </style>
</styles>

Now you do not longer need to manually change the "Overflow" property in the "advanced" tab for every label or text.

You could probably also use a theme in a library and use that theme in the report, instead of adding the 3 styles directly to every report.

The "dirty" thing here is that "overflow" cannot be set in the style editor dialog.

[hvbtup]

@fadeli1 Does the workaround I proposed work for you?

[hvbtup]

See also #916

[fadeli1]

@hvbtup Sorry for the delay, I tested your solution and it works.